Tropescilloscope: Mundane Made Awesome

Ordinary, mediocre and everyday tasks made EPIC. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Pretty in Mink Bury Your Gays The '90s Adaptational Badass Together in Death All There in the Script The '80s In the Back No Ending Anyone Can Die Once More, with Clarity! Novelization Bland-Name Product Gory Discretion Shot Vomit Discretion Shot Aside Glance Race Lift Shown Their Work Defiant to the End How We Got Here Affectionate Parody Humans Are Bastards Ambiguous Disorder Trailers Always Spoil Manly Tears Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Super Strength Chekhov's Gun Bilingual Bonus Hypocrite Deliberately Monochrome Crucified Hero Shot Dutch Angle What the Hell, Hero? Gold Digger Smoking Is Cool Documentary Children Are Innocent You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Fire-Forged Friends Dark Action Girl Fate Worse than Death Arc Words Twist Ending Fingore Jump Scare Accidental Misnaming Improvised Weapon Car Fu Continuity Nod Put on a Bus Manchild Bolivian Army Ending Central Theme Our Zombies Are Different Big "NO!" Chekhov's Skill "The Reason You Suck" Speech Funny Background Event Broken Bird Kill 'em All Bunny-Ears Lawyer Bittersweet Ending Credits Gag The Lost Lenore Never My Fault Almost Kiss Not Quite Dead Maybe Ever After Heel Realization Obviously Evil Room Full of Crazy Dogged Nice Guy Annoying Younger Sibling Foreshadowing Fantasy Films Badass Grandpa Captain Ersatz Vampire Fiction Alpha Bitch Hell Is That Noise Wham Line Stock Footage Catapult Nightmare Neck Lift The End... Or Is It? Token Minority Works Set in World War II Well-Intentioned Extremist Mighty Whitey Badass Normal Heroes Want Redheads Antagonist Title No Celebrities Were Harmed Sealed Evil in a Can Thriller Evil Is Petty Ambiguous Ending Double-Meaning Title Eye Scream Adaptational Villainy Mad Scientist Becoming the Mask Action Genre Jerkass Has a Point Amoral Attorney And I Must Scream Poor Communication Kills Naked People Are Funny Martial Arts Movie Pay Evil unto Evil Armor-Piercing Question Cat Fight Random Events Plot Rated M for Manly From Nobody to Nightmare Only in It for the Money Killed Mid-Sentence Video Credits Took a Level in Jerkass Apocalypse How Despair Event Horizon Instant Death Bullet Black Best Friend Gone Horribly Right Beta Couple Disappeared Dad Contrived Coincidence Ax-Crazy Homage Leitmotif Police are Useless Framing Device Bare Your Midriff Parental Substitute Genre Savvy Depraved Bisexual Time Skip The Oner Brick Joke Love at First Sight Throwing Your Sword Always Works Adorkable Anachronism Stew Jerk Jock You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Daddy's Girl She Cleans Up Nicely Up to Eleven Reality Has No Subtitles Wrong Genre Savvy She's Got Legs What Happened to the Mouse? Too Dumb to Live Meaningful Name An Aesop Pragmatic Villainy The Hero Dies Our Vampires Are Different Index of Film Westerns Death Glare Catch-Phrase Covers Always Lie Vitriolic Best Buds Evil Counterpart I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Scary Black Man One Steve Limit Brother–Sister Incest Cloudcuckoolander Eldritch Abomination Fish out of Water "Well Done, Son!" Guy Serious Business Bald of Evil Rule of Three The Lancer Bavarian Fire Drill Offscreen Moment of Awesome Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Cool Car Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Ironic Echo Bottomless Magazines Romantic Comedy Obstructive Bureaucrat Straight Gay Dumb Blonde Ungrateful Bastard Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Final Girl Body Horror Bitch in Sheep's Clothing My God, What Have I Done? Shirtless Scene Japanese Films Mistaken for Gay Skewed Priorities The Chessmaster Rape as Drama Closed Circle I Have Your Wife Abusive Parents Papa Wolf Hidden Depths And the Adventure Continues Really Gets Around Love Triangle Pyrrhic Victory Badass Longcoat World of Ham Facial Horror He Who Fights Monsters Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism The Great Depression Yandere Curb-Stomp Battle Corrupt Corporate Executive Author Avatar An Arm and a Leg Only a Flesh Wound Dramatic Irony Sacrificial Lion The Mole Bloodless Carnage Off with His Head! Visual Pun Romantic False Lead Mythology Gag Beard of Evil Toplessness from the Back Genre Throwback Extremely Short Timespan Deus ex Machina Cool Old Guy Belligerent Sexual Tension Christmas Movies Index Wounded Gazelle Gambit Rewatch Bonus It's Personal Hero Antagonist Posthumous Character Oh, Crap! Cold-Blooded Torture Very Loosely Based on a True Story Lighter and Softer Arch-Enemy Deadpan Snarker Eagleland Would Hit a Girl Television Movie Index Slasher Movie Five-Man Band Last-Name Basis My Greatest Failure Kill It with Fire Fainting Stepford Smiler Grey and Gray Morality Horror Films Accidental Murder Never Trust a Trailer Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Expository Hairstyle Change Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Broken Aesop Not So Above It All Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Evil Brit Genre Shift Gratuitous English Action Survivor German Films Morality Pet Chewing the Scenery Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Decoy Protagonist Bad "Bad Acting" Does This Remind You of Anything? No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Stalker with a Crush Precision F-Strike Department of Redundancy Department Heterosexual Life-Partners Kubrick Stare Nothing Is Scarier Dark Reprise The Place Evil-Detecting Dog The Sociopath Shout-Out Back from the Dead Four-Temperament Ensemble Black and Gray Morality Small Name, Big Ego Those Wacky Nazis Retired Badass Distracted by the Sexy Villain Song Karmic Death Reality Ensues A God Am I Non-Indicative Name Damsel in Distress Reckless Gun Usage Anachronic Order Big Bad Bowdlerise Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Lock and Load Montage Berserk Button Neck Snap As the Good Book Says... Easily Forgiven Evil Is Hammy Dark and Troubled Past Those Two Bad Guys Running Gag Call-Forward Intrepid Reporter Vomit Indiscretion Shot Flipping the Bird Not So Different Film Noir Shell-Shocked Veteran Adult Fear Properly Paranoid Animal Motifs The Film of the Book Danny Peary Cult Movies List Parental Abandonment The Ace Sports Stories Market-Based Title Grievous Bottley Harm Foil Disney Death Mooks Combat Pragmatist Horror Comedy Self-Deprecation Not Even Bothering with the Accent Wham Shot Action Prologue Country Matters One-Man Army Refuge in Audacity Ms. Fanservice Destination Defenestration Tagline Chase Scene Nice Guy Take That! Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Comically Missing the Point Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Dissonant Serenity Downer Ending Science Fiction Films Shower Scene Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Getting Crap Past the Radar Insult Backfire Handicapped Badass Left the Background Music On Suddenly SHOUTING! "Awesome McCool" Name folderlabel Married to the Job Disney Villain Death BFG Crazy Jealous Guy Stylistic Suck Film Noir Index The Smurfette Principle Dirty Old Man Adaptational Heroism Greater-Scope Villain Rousing Speech Adaptation Name Change Sci-Fi Horror Russian Films Eyepatch of Power "Shaggy Dog" Story Boom, Headshot! Cluster F-Bomb You Killed My Father Frame-Up Artistic License – Biology Villain Ball Agony of the Feet He Knows Too Much Major Injury Underreaction All Just a Dream The '60s Smug Snake Guns Akimbo Made of Iron As You Know Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Beware the Nice Ones The '70s In Medias Res Man on Fire Male Frontal Nudity Mr. Exposition Psycho for Hire The Mafia Actually Pretty Funny Re-Cut Epic Fail The Load Due to the Dead NO INDOOR VOICE Pre-Mortem One-Liner The Smart Guy No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Mama Bear Death of a Child Card-Carrying Villain Dies Wide Open Older Than They Look I'm a Humanitarian The Bully Only One Name Laughing Mad Eureka Moment Implacable Man One-Word Title Biopic Big Applesauce Big Eater French Films Freeze-Frame Bonus Dirty Coward Epic Movie timeperiod Silence Is Golden A Father to His Men Sir Swears-a-Lot Red Oni, Blue Oni Gilligan Cut Say My Name Early-Bird Cameo Crapsack World Hollywood Law Fatal Family Photo Gender Flip Madness Mantra Character Development Action Girl Unusually Uninteresting Sight Not What It Looks Like Death Seeker Creator Cameo Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Friend to All Children Anti-Villain Dull Surprise Hope Spot Fatal Flaw Award-Bait Song Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Authority Equals Asskicking Playing Gertrude Alliterative Name I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Slap-Slap-Kiss Deal with the Devil Historical Villain Upgrade Badass Boast Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Asshole Victim All for Nothing Black Dude Dies First Half the Man He Used to Be Coming-of-Age Story Determinator aka: The Determinator Intergenerational Friendship Ripped from the Headlines Artistic License – Gun Safety Spiritual Successor Casting Gag The Bad Guy Wins Spared by the Adaptation Blood from the Mouth War Is Hell Psychological Thriller Cool Guns Knife Nut Storming the Castle Your Cheating Heart Noodle Incident The Dreaded Make It Look Like an Accident Heroic BSoD Plot Hole Large Ham Meaningful Background Event MacGuffin Bait-and-Switch Product Placement Needs Wiki Magic Love The Brute Mundane Made Awesome Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Nice Hat B-Movie Obfuscating Stupidity British Films Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Establishing Character Moment Fake Shemp Interrupted Suicide Death by Sex Dropped a Bridge on Him Paper-Thin Disguise Author Appeal Groin Attack Meaningful Echo Unusual Euphemism Hair-Trigger Temper The Big Guy Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality The '50s Improbable Aiming Skills Amusing Injuries Animated Credits Opening Daylight Horror Get Out! Title Drop Dirty Cop Zombie Stories Fantastic Racism The Stinger Insistent Terminology Mugging the Monster More Dakka Face–Heel Turn Drugs Are Bad Red Herring Moment Killer Parental Neglect Light Is Not Good Mood Whiplash From Bad to Worse Riddle for the Ages Gorn Men Are the Expendable Gender Villain Protagonist Everyone Has Standards The Cavalry Famous Last Words And Starring Serial Killer Sinister Minister Cassandra Truth The Vamp Kids Are Cruel Villain with Good Publicity Evil Plan Pimped-Out Dress Adults Are Useless Cat Scare Guile Hero Insane Troll Logic Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Breaking the Fourth Wall Shipper on Deck Setting Update Retcon "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Those Two Guys The Alleged Car Age Lift Stuff Blowing Up Worthy Opponent Spiteful Spit Demoted to Extra Word of God Kick the Son of a Bitch For the Evulz Chiaroscuro Defrosting Ice Queen Black Comedy Punny Name For Want of a Nail Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Death by Adaptation Corpsing Monumental Damage The Starscream Here We Go Again! You Have Failed Me Crazy-Prepared Babies Ever After Celebrity Paradox Did Not Get the Girl Male Gaze Laser-Guided Karma Vacation Films Truth in Television Unreliable Narrator Took a Level in Badass The Dog Bites Back The Ditz Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Demonic Possession Fanservice Extra Tranquil Fury Bi the Way There Is No Kill Like Overkill Artistic License – History Historical-Domain Character Totally Radical Disproportionate Retribution Names to Run Away from Really Fast The Stoic Gainax Ending Ship Tease Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Camp Gay Evil vs. Evil '80s Hair Good Is Not Nice Hate Sink Rasputinian Death Affably Evil 20 Minutes into the Future Arranged Marriage Bloodier and Gorier Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Improbable Weapon User Match Cut Only Known by Their Nickname An Axe to Grind Motor Mouth Call-Back Unspoken Plan Guarantee Your Head A-Splode Protagonist Title Overprotective Dad Red Right Hand Knight Templar The Dragon Brutal Honesty My Beloved Smother Sadistic Choice Suspiciously Specific Denial A.I. Is a Crapshoot Tap on the Head Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Death by Irony Scare Chord Bloody Hilarious Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Tempting Fate Made of Explodium Exact Words All There in the Manual Deliberate Values Dissonance Sole Survivor Early Installment Weirdness Victoria's Secret Compartment Butt-Monkey Slashed Throat Would Hurt a Child Military and Warfare Films Cool Shades O.O.C. Is Serious Business Politically Incorrect Villain The Quiet One Cruel and Unusual Death The Voiceless Overly Long Gag Evil Laugh Artistic License – Physics Faking the Dead Sassy Black Woman The Alcoholic Show Within a Show Manipulative Bastard Black Comedy Rape Idiot Ball All Girls Want Bad Boys Dramatic Gun Cock Blood Knight No-Sell Bring My Brown Pants Sexy Discretion Shot Historical In-Joke The Chick Same Language Dub What You Are in the Dark Betty and Veronica Disguised in Drag The X of Y Henpecked Husband Taking the Bullet Adaptational Attractiveness Bond One-Liner Police Brutality Narrator The Stoner Ascended Extra Immune to Bullets Mr. Fanservice As Himself Mind Screw Not So Stoic Abhorrent Admirer No Name Given Sequel Escalation Driven to Suicide Translation Convention Extreme Doormat Cool Old Lady Diabolus ex Machina Unwitting Instigator of Doom Camera Abuse Deconstruction Spanner in the Works Bound and Gagged Canon Foreigner Hollywood Darkness Does Not Like Shoes Roaring Rampage of Revenge Big Damn Heroes Real Life Writes the Plot Darkest Hour Curse Cut Short Auto Erotica In Name Only Be Careful What You Wish For Even Evil Has Standards Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Shut Up, Hannibal! Artistic License – Law Film Series A Minor Kidroduction Humiliation Conga Not Using the "Z" Word Pragmatic Adaptation Fourth Date Marriage Big Bad Duumvirate Hong Kong Films The Reveal Drives Like Crazy Wretched Hive Sequel Hook The Power of Love Leaning on the Fourth Wall Cain and Abel Actor Allusion Fun with Acronyms Meet Cute Off-into-the-Distance Ending Animal Title Index Suspiciously Similar Substitute Badass in a Nice Suit Reality Is Unrealistic Blackmail It Can Think Informed Ability Aluminum Christmas Trees Star-Crossed Lovers Never Found the Body La Résistance Big Fancy House Take a Third Option Expy Villain Opening Scene Attempted Rape May–December Romance Evil Sounds Deep Silent Movie Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Line-of-Sight Name Exactly What It Says on the Tin Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Jerk with a Heart of Gold Hero of Another Story Failed a Spot Check The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Femme Fatale Dressing as the Enemy Blatant Lies Reasonable Authority Figure A Date with Rosie Palms Double Entendre Badass Bookworm Calling the Old Man Out Spell My Name with an "S" Taking You with Me Italian Films Beauty Is Never Tarnished Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Soundtrack Dissonance Adapted Out Undying Loyalty The Musical Slasher Smile Naïve Newcomer Drill Sergeant Nasty Parental Incest All Men Are Perverts Superhero Kick the Dog Bond Villain Stupidity Heel–Face Turn Revenge Scenery Porn Loophole Abuse Captain Obvious Punch-Clock Villain Leave the Camera Running Book-Ends Stealth Pun The Hero Rule of Cool The Remake Have a Gay Old Time Every Car Is a Pinto Public Domain Feature Films Dark Is Not Evil Happily Married Fiery Redhead Hooker with a Heart of Gold Composite Character Missing Mom Soft Glass Didn't Think This Through Australian Movies Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Fat Bastard Whole Plot Reference Cowboy Cop Race Against the Clock Mystery and Detective Films Offscreen Teleportation The Cameo Bullying a Dragon Determinator Mercy Kill Big Brother Instinct Break the Haughty Broken Pedestal I Need a Freaking Drink Scenery Gorn Shoot the Shaggy Dog Training Montage Honor Before Reason Mexican Standoff Big-Bad Ensemble The Atoner Rule of Symbolism Break the Cutie Rule of Funny Woman in White Red Shirt Air-Vent Passageway Costume Porn Psychopathic Manchild Stealth Hi/Bye Plucky Comic Relief Outrun the Fireball It Will Never Catch On Dying Moment of Awesome Adaptation Distillation Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Sanity Slippage No OSHA Compliance Redshirt Army Canadian Movies Advertised Extra Fanservice Flashback Recycled IN SPACE! Villainous Breakdown As Long as It Sounds Foreign Based on a True Story Red Eyes, Take Warning Jitter Cam Anti-Hero Loads and Loads of Characters Real Life Important Haircut Awesome, but Impractical Freudian Excuse I Did What I Had to Do This Is Gonna Suck Lampshade Hanging Roger Ebert: Great Movies List It's All About Me Batman Gambit After the End Creepy Child Pretty Little Headshots Drowning My Sorrows Manic Pixie Dream Girl Earn Your Happy Ending Better to Die than Be Killed The Ghost The Un-Reveal Artistic License – Military Pet the Dog Dwindling Party Imagine Spot Only Sane Man Even Evil Has Loved Ones Alas, Poor Villain Peek-a-Boo Corpse Ominous Latin Chanting Developing Doomed Characters No Antagonist Malevolent Masked Men Dramedy The Casanova Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Chekhov's Gunman Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Adaptation Dye-Job Dual Wielding Heroic Sacrifice Rich Bitch Retirony Bar Brawl Domestic Abuse N-Word Privileges Anguished Declaration of Love Ghost Fiction Green-Eyed Monster Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Logo Joke Enemy Mine Brainless Beauty Ambiguously Gay Face Death with Dignity Adaptation Expansion Music Stories Jerkass Foregone Conclusion Conspicuous CG Redemption Equals Death Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Hypocritical Humor Eiffel Tower Effect Creative Closing Credits Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Historical Hero Upgrade Faux Affably Evil Ass Shove True Companions Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Empathic Environment The Faceless Fan Disservice Woman Scorned Bad Boss Darker and Edgier Karma Houdini Irony Funny Foreigner Wicked Cultured Let's Get Dangerous! Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Artistic License – Geography Hoist by His Own Petard Unresolved Sexual Tension